Community Manager

1000heads; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 74,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401k with employer match

Gym stipend

Professional development stipend

Culture Club activities

DEI initiatives

Commuter benefits

Wellness program

Job summary

1000heads’s Content & Community team seeks a social media professional to drive organic activations and editorial planning across channels. You’ll manage editorial calendars, partner with Creative, Production, Insights, and Strategy, and serve as the main client contact for social initiatives, ensuring culturally relevant, trend-driven content.

You’ll craft native-first content, monitor conversations, and collaborate with design and production to innovate across platforms while maintaining tight

Qualifications

• Track-record in social/digital or integrated marketing in an agency environment.
• Native on social media trends and platform capabilities.
• Immersed in social algorithms to optimize content production and publication.
• Excellent writer with a knack for social copywriting and editorial.
• Experience with influencer programs and social ads.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Be the key client contact across Social Media and Community Management.
• Drive best-in-class organic social activations and campaign initiatives.
• Develop editorial themes, calendars, and guidelines globally and locally.
• Ensure smooth delivery of editorial calendars and day-to-day social execution.
• Provide monthly, quarterly, and bi-annual reports to senior stakeholders.
• Monitor conversations and create engaging connections with the community.
• Spot trends and weave in culturally attuned ideas with design/production teams.
• Create native-first content, including TikTok trend responses.

Skills

Social marketing

Agency experience

Social trends

Copywriting

Editorial planning

Influencer programs

Social ads

Time management

Tools

Social media management tools

Job description

The 1000heads Content & Community team is a proud, powerful collective of social media obsessives, driven by the desire to deliver kick‑ass social‑first content and engage in the trendiest cultural conversations on behalf of some of the world’s most impressive brands. You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Creative and Production to Insights, Relationships, and Strategy to deliver transformational social‑first work for our clients.

To be part of the Content & Community team, you must be a social platform obsessive, a trendspotter, passionate creator and creative, a curious copywriter, and a publishing platform expert. If adapting the latest meme format for a major brand gives you thrills and carefully curated Instagram feeds leave you visibly electric, this is the team for you.

Responsibilities

• EST timezone
• You will be the key client contact across Social Media and Community Management.
• The role will drive best‑in‑class organic social activations and campaign initiatives; from strategy to activation, you will be pivotal in driving Social Transformation for our clients.
• A vital element of this role is developing editorial themes, calendars, and guidelines, both globally and locally.
• You’ll manage the smooth delivery of editorial calendars and the day‑to‑day execution of all social channels.
• Strategically feeding into monthly, quarterly, and bi‑annual reports to senior stakeholders.
• You’ll be responsible for monitoring conversations and creating engaging conversational connections with our excited and engaged community.
• Being highly culturally attuned; constantly challenge the team and our clients with new opportunities for innovation across social media platforms.
• Spotting socially relevant trends and weaving in culturally attuned ideas, working closely with the design and production teams to bring these ideas to life.
• You’ll be obsessed with social media and comfortable creating native‑first content, such as TikTok videos that respond to emerging trends.

Requirements

• This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in office required. You must reside in one of our US office locations: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Miami
• Track‑record in social and digital or integrated marketing in an agency environment
• Native on social media trends, platform capabilities, best practices
• Immersed in social algorithms to optimize content production and publication
• An excellent writer with a knack for social copywriting and editorial
• Experience with social media management tools for publishing, moderation and reporting
• Superb organizational and time management skills, including meticulous attention to detail
• Experience with an influencer programs and social ads would be useful

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and more!
• 401k & Roth retirement investment options with employer match
• Gym and professional development stipends
• Culture Club with monthly activities like sports, games and happy hours
• DEI Council and Employee Resource Groups
• Commute and parking benefits
• Wellness program that focuses on mental, physical and financial employee wellness
• And much more!

Salary Range

annual salary: $74,000-$88,000

About 1000heads

1000heads combines expertise in data & analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world’s best businesses build Social Age brands. 1000heads provides a fully integrated, end‑to‑end Social Transformation™ proposition to blue‑chip clients encompassing data & analytics, strategy and implementation. 1000heads has a global footprint, employing over 200 people across 12 offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Bogota, Sydney, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Japan, Paris and Berlin. 1000heads’ clients include Alphabet, Keurig, The North Face, San Pellegrino, Amazon, Cisco, and Diageo.

1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we are passionately committed to working together to promote an inclusive environment which celebrates and promotes diversity. We are committed to our belief that diversity in our team generates better and bolder ideas, creativity, understanding and respect. We welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.